Prof Bonnett, whose research includes the politics and geography of nostalgia and memory, believes sympathetic regeneration is key to avoiding what he terms "blandscapes".
Mr Speight and his group want the presidency to go to Ratu Josefa Iloilo, who they believe is sympathetic to their demands for an ethnically pure Fiji.
A newspaper called the Sark Newsletter has made frequent and scathing attacks on the government, individual members and islanders it believes are sympathetic to the administration.
Yuri Tkachev, who runs a news website many believe is sympathetic to the separatist cause, said the "pro-Russian" movement in the city was actually not pro-Moscow but more anti-Kiev and against the Maidan protest movement.
Mr. Mirza was referring to recent attacks by State Assemblyman Dov Hikind in The Jewish Week and elsewhere saying that the committee was linked to enemies of Israel, including the American Muslim Alliance, a group some believe is sympathetic to Islamic militant groups.
And several groups in the United States are believed to be sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Mossad also explored ways of trying to compromise the former IAEA director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, whom Israel believed was overly sympathetic to Iran.
Other conservative groups were ramping up campaigns against moderate Republicans -- like Bill Binnie in New Hampshire and Tom Campbell in California -- who are believed to be sympathetic to same-sex marriage rights.
Some say that the dismissal in 1789 of France's finance minister, Jacques Necker — a man believed to be sympathetic to political change and the aspirations of the emerging classes — led to demonstrations that ended in the storming of the Bastille.
On the other hand, also in April, observers were surprised when the national electoral commission, generally believed to be sympathetic to Maduro, allowed the initiation of the paperwork necessary to begin a recall of Maduro.
